Building Linux Applications With JavaScript 288
crankymonkey writes "The GNOME desktop environment could soon gain support for building and extending applications with JavaScript thanks to an experimental new project called Seed. Ars Technica has written a detailed tutorial about Seed with several code examples. The article demonstrates how to make a GTK+ application for Linux with JavaScript and explains how Seed could influence the future of GNOME development. In some ways, it's an evolution of the strategy that was pioneered long ago by GNU with embedded Scheme. Ars Technica concludes: 'The availability of a desktop-wide embeddable scripting language for application extension and plugin writing will enable users to add lots of rich new functionality to the environment. As this technology matures and it becomes more tightly integrated with other language frameworks such as Vala, it could change the way that GNOME programmers approach application development. JavaScript could be used as high-level glue for user interface manipulation and rapid prototyping while Vala or C are used for performance-sensitive tasks.'"
Didn't RTFA.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bringing new devs into GNOME, that's why. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:says who? (Score:2, Funny)
Please tell me you didn't just call Perl "nice" or "clean".
The fact that you believe Perl is "cleaner" than Javascript tells me that you are already a victim of Perl Syndrome, [urbandictionary.com] and should report immediately to your local sanitarium.
Could this become as popular as AppleScript? (Score:3, Funny)
Dear Gnome (Score:4, Funny)
Dear Gnome project. I am a long term linux user and
also a long term gnome user.
Let me make this perfectly clear. If you script things on my desktop
with either javascript or scheme I will wipe my hard disk and install
Microsoft Windows.
Ps.
I program in both scheme and javascript.
PPs.
You're morons.
Re:Takes the idea of "open source" to a new level (Score:3, Funny)
Writing GTK itself in C# seems pretty silly.
But how else would you write a UI toolkit to be used on a .NET Compact Framework that uses digital signatures to block you from P/Invoking your own C or C++ code?
Re:Perl and Python (Score:3, Funny)
But, JavaScript for desktop GUIs? That just gives me an odd feeling inside...
Maybe you have not heard of this new little app... It appears that there are a few people out there who even like it. It's a bit hard to find, because for various reasons it has been renamed way too many times... The last name, IIRC, is Firefox. Google should be able to find it for you.